v 1: to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail" [syn: pry, prize, lever, jimmy]
Yes. Wait, not the Prize synonym, dumbasses.
2: make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him" [syn: pry]
Yes.
3: regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity" [syn: respect, esteem, value, prize] [ant: disrespect]
NO! WRONG! TOTALLY WRONG! WHERE'D YOU LEARN THIS? STOP DOING IT! (Apologies to Bob the Angry Flower)
"Pri S e" and "Pri Z e" are TOTALLY DIFFERENT WORDS, with completely seperate meanings. Fucking dictionary.com are on fucking crack, the cocksucking motherfuckers! It's fuckheads like these that will spearhead the demise of the english language. Can't they recognise a simple fucking homophone when they fucking see it!? Fucking Idiots.
At least IM software is a _bit_ more heterogeneous than Windows.
In this case it doesn't really matter. Consider a exploit that can get the buddy list out of MSN for example. Now as most IM's only have one client used by the bulk of people, it becomes trivial to send a copy of the exploit to each person on your list and have a high proportion of them become infected, to progress outwards to friends
geometrically (unless you have no friends)
This is a hell of a lot more sucessful than your usual pick-a-random-ip-and-hope-it's-exploitable method.
Wrong driver and then the kernel decided to panic on every start. Couldn't get it fixed short of a reinstall.
That's what single user mode is for ("single" at the end of your kernel parameters) or failing that, putting "init=/bin/bash" as a kernel parameter, or failing *that*, a generic failsafe kernel that you can select at boot - that could be setup similar to windows "F8 to safe mode" thing.
But of course finding all this info out is difficult if the only PC you have access to will not boot:-)
MAYNARD: It reads, [reading] "`I've been feeling so streesed late....HEEEURK! bleaugh...'" ARTHUR: What? MAYNARD: [reading] "HEEEURK! bleaugh..." BEDEVERE: What is that? MAYNARD: He must have died while typing it. LAUNCELOT: Oh, come on! MAYNARD: Well, that's what it says. ARTHUR: Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't bother to type 'bleaugh'. He'd just say it! MAYNARD: Well, that's what he posted! GALAHAD: Perhaps he was dictating. ARTHUR: Oh, shut up.
Come off it. 10 years from now there's going to be the Same Old Stuff in space. It might be slightly more efficient, which makes a nice bonus, but that's about it.
Or was that a wry comment about NASA's return to the big dumb booster of the Apollo era? If so, than kudos to you, sir.
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Don't forget, it happened with quantities and timescales that you cannot easily (let alone physically) comprehend.
*the following are numbers pulled from nowhere, but help to convey the idea*
So, it takes a billion (1,000,000,000) years for single-celled organisms to evolve. On planet with at least a billion-billion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bits of organic building blocks in it's oceans, randomly and constantly thrown together. So if it's a one in a million chance to do a particular step on the road to life, it'll probably happen a million times a second worldwide for a billion years.
When you look at the numbers like *that*, the odds are pretty good you'll get something like life out the other end.
I wasn't talking about nuclear waste, dumbass. The OP was talking about the freaky x-rays from his sparkplugs interfering with his gonads (or something like that). In which I reply that the x-rays eminating from his spark plugs would easily be stopped by the amount of metal in his engine. There's a helluva difference between relatively low-energy spurts of x-rays at 40KeV than a constant high energy flood of gamma radiation from something hot.
Alright, "Blocks X-rays 100 times stronger" is probably a bit of a stretch, but perfectly allowable when you're arguing about the freaky x-rays from spark plugs. (From various googled sites, 30cm of steel will pretty much block 4MeV X-rays. So an engine block would probably do it for 40KeV, really)
I bet that it is causing a lot of cancers that we are blaming on second-hand smoke and radon exposure.
*cough* except for the fact that the spark from your spark plugs is contained inside a combustion chamber, which is normally at least 5 or 10cm of alloy steel. That amount of steel can quite easily shield X-rays 100 times as strong.
And as for all the things to do with radioactive waste - reprocess the good stuff. Seal the rest of it in concrete (or ceramic beads, or whatever) and drop it in your nearest subduction zone. A few millenia later, it's all back in the center of the earth.
Personally I believe in 50 years time only China will be left with enough generating capacity to sustain growth. The don't give a fuck about Greenpeace, or NIMBY, and in this case,good for them.
I can't recall seeing one bank (or credit union) ever having such lax policies. But I live in Australia. Maybe things where you live could do with some tightening up.
Around 800 passengers, packed into an eight-carriage train, were stranded below ground in temperatures that soared over 30C.
"Soared over 30C?" Dear God , those poor, poor Brits.
Tim Jones, 37, a marketing manager.... said, "....The temperature must have got to 120f, so it was starting to get a bit scary. "
Sounds like a bit of heresay there - did he have a thermometer handy? It's the third week of spring here where I live and we've already had a few 39C days. Suck it up, you Brits. Remember - what doesn't kill you, prepares you for global warming in the 21st century. Enjoy:-)
I do. But I work 1200m underground in a lead mine, and where I live regularly tops 45 degrees in the shade in summer, so perhaps I'm not representative of the normal slashdot population.
And I thought room temperature was in the order of 25 degrees C or so. Maybe they're trying to compare it to your typical plasma temperauture, which is in the order of 4000 degrees C.
Yeah , but Australians don't really mean it, they disparage everyone equally. It's all about a fair go for everybody. And if an Australian doesn't have a category to slot someone into, they make one up, quick. This way, they can just say, "Ah, Bloody (adjective) (group), they're useless!"
The adjective can be like - lazy/smartarse/stupid/meddling/snobby (pick one, or two if it's serious)
The group can be like - yanks/french/students/bludgers/yuppies/hippies/tou rists/politicians/poms/scientists
For example, the USA invades Iran and it goes horribly wrong. An Australian will read the paper and say, "Aw, bloody meddling yanks, they'll get us all killed." and then head on down to the pub. Case closed.
Works pretty well, really. Gets a lot of frustration out of the way.
Didn't you read that bit in the bible? In Genesis? In that footnote 4 or 5 pages in?
"And the Lord brought forth the remains of many, many varied animals and plants, different to what existed on the newly-fashioned earth. And lo, He crafted a fossil record that suggested they did indeed exist far in the past, and planted it so that men of Science, with their need to understand with Hard Facts and Reason and Logic, would have something to explain the Creation with. For the Lord looks after all His children, even those of little Faith."
It's all in there people. You just have to read and interpret it a little bit. And change a few words here and there. And possibly fragment and rearrage sections. But it's all in there.
I think the first Arianne series IV rocket self-destructed because someone loaded the series III flight control software into it by mistake.
So, the rocket launched, tried to perform manoevure, saw something unexpected as a result of that attempt and subsequently decides to self-destruct rather than plow off into the great unknown.
Pity it had an uninsured $100 million satellite on board though.
That's the whole point of an ICBM - Ballistic being the key word there. The stages of an ICBM were never designed to achieve orbit. They go up for a little ways, they come down again.
Which is great if you've got a warhead on top. Not so great if you've got a 90 million dollar satellite that'll take 3 years to build again.
There's no need to proescute. Just the implied threat is good enough. Eg.
FCC recieves complaints of wireless interference from someone. FCC says "Well, that band is unlicensed, tough." FCC recieves complaints of interference of licensed band from wireless source. FCC sends a fellow out with directional equipment, locates your AP, knocks on your door and says "Hi, I'm from the FCC. It looks like your running a illegal high-powered transmitter there. Care to turn that off? It's interfering with the hospital 3 blocks away."
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And no rubber mallet for those instant service calls? Amatuer.
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v 1: to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail" [syn: pry, prize, lever, jimmy]
Yes. Wait, not the Prize synonym, dumbasses.
2: make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him" [syn: pry]
Yes.
3: regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity" [syn: respect, esteem, value, prize] [ant: disrespect]
NO! WRONG! TOTALLY WRONG! WHERE'D YOU LEARN THIS? STOP DOING IT!
(Apologies to Bob the Angry Flower)
"Pri S e" and "Pri Z e" are TOTALLY DIFFERENT WORDS, with completely seperate meanings. Fucking dictionary.com are on fucking crack, the cocksucking motherfuckers ! It's fuckheads like these that will spearhead the demise of the english language. Can't they recognise a simple fucking homophone when they fucking see it!? Fucking Idiots.
There. I feel better now. Continue.
At least IM software is a _bit_ more heterogeneous than Windows.
In this case it doesn't really matter.
Consider a exploit that can get the buddy list out of MSN for example.
Now as most IM's only have one client used by the bulk of people, it becomes trivial to send a copy of the exploit to each person on your list and have a high proportion of them become infected, to progress outwards to friends
geometrically (unless you have no friends)
This is a hell of a lot more sucessful than your usual pick-a-random-ip-and-hope-it's-exploitable method.
"Microsoft Takes Aim at Google"...... shoots self in foot.
Wrong driver and then the kernel decided to panic on every start. Couldn't get it fixed short of a reinstall.
:-)
That's what single user mode is for ("single" at the end of your kernel parameters)
or failing that, putting "init=/bin/bash" as a kernel parameter,
or failing *that*, a generic failsafe kernel that you can select at boot - that could be setup similar to windows "F8 to safe mode" thing.
But of course finding all this info out is difficult if the only PC you have access to will not boot
They should have just mounted the panels upside down so the dust wouldn't settle on the active surface.
MAYNARD: It reads, [reading] "`I've been feeling so streesed late....HEEEURK! bleaugh...'"
ARTHUR: What?
MAYNARD: [reading] "HEEEURK! bleaugh..."
BEDEVERE: What is that?
MAYNARD: He must have died while typing it.
LAUNCELOT: Oh, come on!
MAYNARD: Well, that's what it says.
ARTHUR: Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't bother to type 'bleaugh'. He'd just say it!
MAYNARD: Well, that's what he posted!
GALAHAD: Perhaps he was dictating.
ARTHUR: Oh, shut up.
Come off it. 10 years from now there's going to be the Same Old Stuff in space.
It might be slightly more efficient, which makes a nice bonus, but that's about it.
Or was that a wry comment about NASA's return to the big dumb booster of the Apollo era? If so, than kudos to you, sir.
Don't forget, it happened with quantities and timescales that you cannot easily (let alone physically) comprehend.
*the following are numbers pulled from nowhere, but help to convey the idea*
So, it takes a billion (1,000,000,000) years for single-celled organisms to evolve. On planet with at least a billion-billion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bits of organic building blocks in it's oceans, randomly and constantly thrown together. So if it's a one in a million chance to do a particular step on the road to life, it'll probably happen a million times a second worldwide for a billion years.
When you look at the numbers like *that*, the odds are pretty good you'll get something like life out the other end.
I wasn't talking about nuclear waste, dumbass. The OP was talking about the freaky x-rays from his sparkplugs interfering with his gonads (or something like that). In which I reply that the x-rays eminating from his spark plugs would easily be stopped by the amount of metal in his engine. There's a helluva difference between relatively low-energy spurts of x-rays at 40KeV than a constant high energy flood of gamma radiation from something hot.
Alright, "Blocks X-rays 100 times stronger" is probably a bit of a stretch, but perfectly allowable when you're arguing about the freaky x-rays from spark plugs.
(From various googled sites, 30cm of steel will pretty much block 4MeV X-rays. So an engine block would probably do it for 40KeV, really)
I bet that it is causing a lot of cancers that we are blaming on second-hand smoke and radon exposure.
*cough* except for the fact that the spark from your spark plugs is contained inside a combustion chamber, which is normally at least 5 or 10cm of alloy steel. That amount of steel can quite easily shield X-rays 100 times as strong.
And as for all the things to do with radioactive waste - reprocess the good stuff. Seal the rest of it in concrete (or ceramic beads, or whatever) and drop it in your nearest subduction zone. A few millenia later, it's all back in the center of the earth.
Personally I believe in 50 years time only China will be left with enough generating capacity to sustain growth. The don't give a fuck about Greenpeace, or NIMBY, and in this case,good for them.
Too many?
I can't recall seeing one bank (or credit union) ever having such lax policies.
But I live in Australia. Maybe things where you live could do with some tightening up.
I'm pretty sure that Jack spanks to Laura Croft, but that's my personal opinion.
Hell, who doesn't?!
(crickets)
Er, I've said too much. Nevermind....
And what's with the "after just 115 hours in orbit?". Sounds like a little bit of disdain there.
"just 115 hours." Well, have you done any better, Scuttlemonkey? Do tell.
I know. I work 1200m underground in a hot, wet, stinky lead mine.
But I still reserve the right to poke fun at the brits, the sooks (poke).
(reads article)
.... said, "....The temperature must have got to 120f, so it was starting to get a bit scary. "
:-)
Around 800 passengers, packed into an eight-carriage train, were stranded below ground in temperatures that soared over 30C.
"Soared over 30C?" Dear God , those poor, poor Brits.
Tim Jones, 37, a marketing manager
Sounds like a bit of heresay there - did he have a thermometer handy?
It's the third week of spring here where I live and we've already had a few 39C days. Suck it up, you Brits. Remember - what doesn't kill you, prepares you for global warming in the 21st century. Enjoy
Who here has their room as hot as 34 degrees C?
I do. But I work 1200m underground in a lead mine, and where I live regularly tops 45 degrees in the shade in summer, so perhaps I'm not representative of the normal slashdot population.
And I thought room temperature was in the order of 25 degrees C or so.
Maybe they're trying to compare it to your typical plasma temperauture, which is in the order of 4000 degrees C.
you'll leave a goatse picture on every ASP and Cold Fusion website you visit thereafter... ...... greatly improving their content.
Yeah , but Australians don't really mean it, they disparage everyone equally.
u rists/politicians/poms/scientists
It's all about a fair go for everybody. And if an Australian doesn't have a category to slot someone into, they make one up, quick. This way, they can just say, "Ah, Bloody (adjective) (group), they're useless!"
The adjective can be like - lazy/smartarse/stupid/meddling/snobby
(pick one, or two if it's serious)
The group can be like - yanks/french/students/bludgers/yuppies/hippies/to
For example, the USA invades Iran and it goes horribly wrong. An Australian will read the paper and say, "Aw, bloody meddling yanks, they'll get us all killed." and then head on down to the pub. Case closed.
Works pretty well, really. Gets a lot of frustration out of the way.
It's just God messing with our heads.
Didn't you read that bit in the bible? In Genesis? In that footnote 4 or 5 pages in?
"And the Lord brought forth the remains of many, many varied animals and plants, different to what existed on the newly-fashioned earth. And lo, He crafted a fossil record that suggested they did indeed exist far in the past, and planted it so that men of Science, with their need to understand with Hard Facts and Reason and Logic, would have something to explain the Creation with. For the Lord looks after all His children, even those of little Faith."
It's all in there people. You just have to read and interpret it a little bit.
And change a few words here and there. And possibly fragment and rearrage sections. But it's all in there.
University of Colorado goes by CU.
Do they have a New Technology Department?
If not, they should get one.
Exactly.
Then think about all the other components of Hubble. What if someone had ground the lens incorrectly and.... oh. Nevermind
I think the first Arianne series IV rocket self-destructed because someone loaded the series III flight control software into it by mistake.
So, the rocket launched, tried to perform manoevure, saw something unexpected as a result of that attempt and subsequently decides to self-destruct rather than plow off into the great unknown.
Pity it had an uninsured $100 million satellite on board though.
That's the whole point of an ICBM - Ballistic being the key word there. The stages of an ICBM were never designed to achieve orbit. They go up for a little ways, they come down again.
Which is great if you've got a warhead on top. Not so great if you've got a 90 million dollar satellite that'll take 3 years to build again.
There's no need to proescute. Just the implied threat is good enough.
Eg.
FCC recieves complaints of wireless interference from someone.
FCC says "Well, that band is unlicensed, tough."
FCC recieves complaints of interference of licensed band from wireless source.
FCC sends a fellow out with directional equipment, locates your AP, knocks on your door and says "Hi, I'm from the FCC. It looks like your running a illegal high-powered transmitter there. Care to turn that off? It's interfering with the hospital 3 blocks away."
And that's pretty much the end of it.